Information. We crave it, store it, need it. Thrive on it. When I am out and about I am constantly making notes in my phone: lists, things to look up, […]
Year: 2009
Bobb Trimble :: Iron Curtain Innocence/Harvest of Dreams
Releasing two great underappreciated records in the early 80s (private press — real lo-fi), there is no one quite like Bobb Trimble in the world of rock n roll. His vision is […]
Jonathan Richman :: Los Angeles, December 8th @ The Mint
Jonathan Richman is doing a string of nights at the Mint December 8-10 (next week). I have a pair of tickets for an AD reader for the night of the 8th. Leave a comment […]
Decade :: El-P, I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead (2007)
What is it that makes us want to deconstruct art by units of time? Lists. We love making them. We love arguing over them. And here, on the verge of […]
Bear In Heaven :: Werewolf
Bear In Heaven’s new LP, Beast Rest Forth Mouth , has been receiving a lot of atta-boys of late (and rightfully so), but unlike their debut it does not have an accompanying . . . Only […]
Decade :: Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy/Matt Sweeney, Superwolf (2005)
What is it that makes us want to deconstruct art by units of time? Lists. We love making them. We love arguing over them. And here, on the verge of […]
AD Presents :: Grooms @ Silverlake Lounge, December 10th
Thursday night, December 10th, Aquarium Drunkard presents Grooms with The Northstar Session , Brydan Smith and Radio Moscow at ye olde Silverlake Lounge . We have three pairs of tickets to giveaway to AD readers. Wanna go? Leave the name […]
Jens Carelius :: The Beat of The Travel
Depending on his mood Jens Carelius (provenance, Norway) incorporates a singing style somewhere between Bert Jansch and secular-era Cat Stevens. His sophomore album, The Beat of The Travel , released earlier this year, wavers between pastoral folk […]
Decade :: Panda Bear, Person Pitch (2007)
What is it that makes us want to deconstruct art by units of time? Lists. We love making them. We love arguing over them. And here, on the verge of […]
Decade :: Sonic Youth, Murray Street (2002)
What is it that makes us want to deconstruct art by units of time? Lists. We love making them. We love arguing over them. And here, on the verge of […]
Surf City :: Autumn
Based on the strength of their 2008 self-titled EP, this was one of the few bands I missed at CMJ that I really wanted to check out live. Formerly known […]
Decade :: Sleater-Kinney, The Woods (2005)
What is it that makes us want to deconstruct art by units of time? Lists. We love making them. We love arguing over them. And here, on the verge of […]
Map of Africa :: Bone (Revisited)
Posted this track several years ago. Great jam; like a Pink Mountaintops b-side. Throwback rock ‘n roll. For Heads, by heads. Aquarium Drunkard is powered by its patrons . Keep the servers humming and help us continue […]
Decade :: Iron & Wine, The Creek Drank the Cradle (2002)
What is it that makes us want to deconstruct art by units of time? Lists. We love making them. We love arguing over them. And here, on the verge of […]
Citay :: Careful With That Hat
Bob, the protagonist in Gus Van Sant’s Drugstore Cowboy , lived by a simple code: Never mention dogs (“to even mention a dog would have been a hex in itself”). Never look […]